Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ulam spoke on the reasons for the neutrality pact between Germany and England, arguing that it was possible that if Hitler had not made the pact he would not have started the war. Hitler's generals were not willing to fight another two front-war after losing the previous...
...American, British and Soviet leaders met at Yalta at a time when the Red Army had liberated most of Eastern Europe from Hitler's troops and were poised to take Berlin. Although the ailing Roosevelt knew that the U.S. could soon assault Japan with the first atom bomb, his top military advisers doubted that its use would be immediately decisive. An American priority at Yalta was to ensure Japan's quick defeat by persuading Stalin to join the Far East conflict once Germany surrendered...
...Temple, a medieval order of warrior-monks formed in the 12th century and suppressed by the Pope in the 14th, who have vanished into a spiraling legend. Francis Bacon was a secret Templar, according to some spuriously authoritative sources; so, according to others, were Columbus, Mozart and Hitler...
...citizens of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania love to watch grainy black- and-white documentary films of what it was like 50 years ago, before their lands were seized by Stalin, invaded by Hitler, then colonized by the Kremlin. They remember themselves as having been self-reliant yet outward looking. These are among the virtues that Gorbachev is now preaching for the Soviet Union as a whole. He is a Westernizer, in the tradition of an enlightened but ultimately frustrated school of 19th century Russian reformers. The Baltics are already the most Westernized of the 15 Soviet republics, and they...
...NIGHTMARE YEARS (TNT, Sept. 17-20, 8 p.m. EDT). William Shirer's memoir of Hitler's Germany in the 1930s is re-created in an eight-hour mini-series...